Out of Box

“Wow! Look at those pair! So gorgeous. let me try it on, Yes, its fit me well”. (smiles, as if she won a Miss. beauty contest) “ But look at its heel and I am tall..very tall (damn, the stupid boys, why cant you all be tall?!!)”Disappointment sagged her cheeks a little. But almost determined, not to let anyone else to have her new found treasure. Her friend agreed that it matches her long (bootiful)legs.On her way back to home, she felt good,

1. she got what she wanted.

2. that too, at 50% discount.

The work load brought her back from the land of shoes to her home. Everything in this home is pending and looked upon to be done by someone else. And that someone else was always her! She cleaned the home like she was digging a dirty mine , and then the loads of clothes, then the phone calls, then a little time for nap. Did she dream of her new shoes, I wonder! Because she woke up instantly (in a snap, I say! --the power of new things, they break the rules of sleep too!)

She went around, looked for the shoes, there, it lies on the sofa, where she threw as she came in. Eagerness Rules. She removed the box in a second, and the shoes ,out of box , in another fraction of second. (smiles). She put it on and walked a step forward ,before the mirror, then a step back, then sidewise . Disappointment sagged her cheeks again.

“Man, I look like a giant!!” Now, Curiosity raised her eyebrows “can I even use the word, giant? What else can I use? I look too large for the room (too tall for the mirror).”She threw the stupid shoes away(yeah, they are stupid, it doesn’t make her feel worthy)Hmm. One minute ago, it was cared and caressed, now its deserted ,dumped etc. Anger raised her eyebrows further, and disappointment sagged her heart, this time.

She imagined her wearing it the next day, walking along the side path, everyone especially men, an inch shorter than her. And people staring at her, as if she was some kind of giant. (so, the use of word “GIANT” was correct) “Dork! Why the hell did I buy this shoes?” and hit the pillow and it sank with her arm.

She remembered the last time when the world grew shorter of her (or rather she felt larger than everything around, as she step into her cousins’ room , there he stands dressing , half-naked(just a bare-chest). She felt like a giant then. Her cousin who was tall, suddenly looked smaller than her! Now, she wonders, after all this time, what was that about. No, its not about a bare-chest. But, him admiring himself on mirror, made her laugh. (The LAUGH that she should have laughed then, at that time)

Ah! That was a long time ago, And she can’t laugh at him again; a soul gone beyond the seasons of nature! Disappointment sagged her again ,and made her face lower. She saw the pair of shoes lying on the floor pair-less , abandoned. She picked them up and placed them inside the box.

There, they lie, waiting to get out of box , for a next time run.